# Euroref Country Brief

> Euroref Country Brief is a paid API for AI agents from euroref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Returns every major government reference data series for a single European country in one call — policy rate, VAT, CPI, tax rates, minimum wage, public holidays, and more

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://euroref.dev/v1/brief/:country?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/euroref-country-brief-922623d5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_AlYGxzJ507JfNVHXfz9OL

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability euroref-country-brief-922623d5
```

Example prompt: Pull together all the official government reference figures for Germany — I need the policy rate, VAT rates, corporate and income tax, minimum wage, and CPI in one shot.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a comprehensive, single-call snapshot of all government reference data for one European country — avoiding multiple separate lookups for VAT, tax, CPI, and monetary data. Ideal for compliance workflows, financial due diligence, market entry analysis, or building dashboards that require authoritative, cited data with source provenance and confidence labels. Prefer this over category-specific endpoints when breadth across all series matters more than depth in a single series.

## Known failure modes

- Country code not recognized or not covered by Euroref (e.g. non-European ISO codes) — returns 404 or empty result
- Stale data if official sources have not been recently confirmed — indicated by an older last-confirmed date and lower confidence label
- Malformed country code (not ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) — likely returns 400 bad request
- Payment failure via x402 protocol — returns 402 Payment Required
- Network timeout if upstream government data sources are slow to respond

## How this service works

European country brief: every government reference series for one country in one call (policy rate, VAT/GST, CPI, income/corporate/withholding tax, minimum wage, holidays...), each with value, unit, effective date, last-confirmed date, official source and confidence label

## Output

A structured JSON object containing all major government reference series for the requested European country, each entry including the current value, unit, effective date, last-confirmed date, a link to the official source, and a confidence label — covering areas such as central bank policy rate, VAT/GST rate and components, CPI, income tax, corporate tax, withholding tax, minimum wage, and public holidays.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {},
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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